Quotes About Legacy

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

To Contemplation's sober eye. / Such is the race of Man.

Shiloh isn't haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn't care.

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies.

It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.

We have a whole generation of men who don't understand how much they mean to their kids.

There were only 3 people that I wanted to meet in life, Nelson Mandela was one of them. What a life, what a journey, what a man. Thank you for passing this way! God bless your resting soul!

The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.

If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.

Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.